Wednesday, November 10, 2010

Looney Health Issues

Does breaking your leg make you a cripple? I heard that we aren't allowed to say "cripple" anymore. We have to say "better off" or something.I hope they bury me in this position.I have never seen this condition before, but I like it. Does Daffy have the Shingles?

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In my college library there are many old books of psychology and social criticism (dating from the early 60s to the mid-70s).

I like to read them because they are much more direct about the subjects' situations than modern social science books, usually without resorting to mud-slinging. "Retard" and "cripple" aren't politically loaded insults in them, just diagnoses.

There's even a book that categorizes bad logic as "crazy talk" and "stupid talk!" Who has the balls for that anymore?

A few years ago I went to buy some old comics at a show that was being held in a Shriner's auditorium. (They owned it or something.) And everywhere I looked there were posters and flyers and stuff promoting the helping of "crippled children".

Maybe Bugs has gangrene in that illustration and he's about to have the limb amputated. Then he'd be crippled for sure!

Once, when I was a child I broke my leg in a bike accident. I had a cast during the end of the school year, and during the summer I had to wear this brace thing on my leg. That summer I went to Girl Scout camp still wearing the damn leg brace. One day, I was sitting on the steps of a cabin with a couple of my freinds and some adult came by and took our picture. I didn't think much of it. The next year, before summer started, my family recieved the annual brochure from the camp. I opened it up to discover the picture of me in the leg brace sitting on the steps with a quote underneath it saying, "we accept all kinds of special needs children", or something like that. Sheesh.

oh man, I you totally made me remember this woody woodpecker we had on the wall that was made of dripped melted together plastic like that daffy.it was like toxic plastic stucco and disgusting to the touch. fun.

Hey John, this is off topic but i just want to say you are pretty awesome.

Online character design/cartooning classes are popping up everywhere, and they charge upwards to a thousand dollars per course. It's almost as if these guys realize there is no future in the industry and the best way to make money is to tell young artists that there is and charge money for the secrets. Schoolism, i'm looking at you.

Your cartoon college exercises are infinitely more helpful and yet they don't cost a thing. Thanks for not contributing to the fleecing of the art community.

PS: If your live instruction courses ever comes to fruition i wouldn't hesitate for a moment to pay for something like that.

Ha! My parents used to have that daffy duck decoration. It was made out of little pieces of plastic that looked like mini waded up tissues that were melted together. We had a Rudolf the red nose reindeer one too.